"Christmas" is the Christmas-themed episode of the Cartoon Network original series The Amazing World of Gumball. It premiered in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2012, before making its US premiere the following day.
Synopsis
It's Christmas Eve, and all the citizens of Elmore are in a festive mood. Many characters wish the viewers a merry Christmas, including the Wattersons, who are driving home in their car. Their high spirits are abruptly brought down, however, when they crash into someone. This "someone" turns out to be a filthy bum that looks strikingly similar to Santa Claus, at least in Richard's opinion.
They rush the stranger to the hospital, with Richard voicing his worry about being on the naughty list this year. He decides to make up for it with several last minute good deeds, running around the hospital and making a huge mess. Richard, being completely unqualified for even the simplest first aid procedures, causes much more harm than good. After blowing up a senior citizen, the doctor finally gives Richard his diagnosis of the situation: he is obviously not Santa, has no ID, has lost his memories, and must be taken care of by the man who ran him over. Nicole fiercely objects to having a filthy homeless man in her house on Christmas Eve, but the kids, who believe this man to be Santa, beg their mother to reconsider. She relents, and allows the stranger come home with her.
Back at the house, Richard ushers Santa in, attempting to make up for running him over. Nicole follows Santa closely, sweeping the trail of grime he leaves behind and covering the chair before he sits down. At the same time, Richard surrenders everything he owns to Santa, giving him his house, his cookies, even his wife. At the mention of the latter, Nicole tells her husband to go somewhere else for a while. She then rushes to the bathroom to wash Santa, telling the kids to burn anything he touches with his filthy hands. The kids, still believing this to be the real Santa, help him to get his memories back.
They take him to a mall, kick the fake Santa off his chair, and put the real Santa in his place. The kids figured that this is what the real Santa does: have kids sit on his lap and tell him what they want. Anais does just that, asking for several extravagant things. Santa calls her spoiled, causing her to storm out and start hitting stuff. Darwin asks for world peace, but Santa replies that such a thing would be impractical. That ticks Darwin off, causing him to join Anais in smashing stuff. Gumball asks to sit on Santa's lap, to which Santa curtly denies, causing Gumball to join the other two. Finally, Santa asks for a cookie, and is loudly denied his request by the other three. Now all four of them are ravaging the mall.
The scene cuts to the four of them, angrily avoiding each others' gaze while driving home in a dead silent car. Gumball breaks the silence by trying to bring the group together again. Everyone starts apologizing, then they group hug. Nicole is annoyed by this; she scolds the kids for apologizing to the homeless man instead of apologizing for causing thousands of dollars worth of damage at the mall. She sighs, wishing for a normal family with a normal husband that doesn't run around like a maniac for the sake of a fat, fictional man. As she drives away, Richard runs out into the street and attempts to wash the next car to pass...while it was going forty miles per hour. The driver, who turns out to be Principal Brown, stops abruptly, and the tree that was tied to the roof of his car flies off. It hits Rosie's reindeer decoration and erupted the entire thing into flames, causing the poor little bunny girl to cry as Richard wishes her a merry Christmas.
Later on, the three kids try to push Santa up the chimney. But soon after, Nicole decides to tell her kids the truth. She drains out their Christmas spirit as soon as she tells the truth about Santa. She tells them the story about when she was a little girl and always sent Santa a letter for only one thing she wanted, but over time she kept sending letters and never got her gift and just stopped believing. When she finishes, she turns around and sees that Anais, Darwin, Gumball and Santa are gone. She goes outside and yells that she's sorry, as the Watterson kids sing a sad song about Christmas being canceled.
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